High speed horse getaway by the Dreadhead Cowboy on the Dan Ryan expressway in Chicago

This man is a true Patriot!

ABC 7 Chicago



CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago's so-called Dreadhead Cowboy Adam Hollingsworth is in police custody after police said he rode his horse on the Dan Ryan Expressway during the evening rush.

Hollingsworth is facing several charges including reckless conduct, disobeying a police officer and trespassing on the expressway, obstruction of traffic by a person, pedestrian on a controlled access highway.

An outspoken Chicago activist calling on the state's attorney to drop charges against the so-called Dreadhead Cowboy.

The calls starting coming in just before 4:30 p.m. Monday. Hollingsworth, was going live on social media with a message.

"Kids lives matter. Until kids lives matter, until we understand kids lives matter nothing else matter," he said on a Facebook Live.




In another post earlier on his Facebook page he wrote, "we focus on kids lives matter this gone keep happening' and told his followers he was going live at 4 p.m., saying, "y'all don't wanna miss this I promise."

Hollingsworth and his supporters said the ride was meant to get the public and politicians' attention to children's needs in the city. They say funding for children's programs, especially in low-income areas, is far from adequate and there is also not enough investment in those communities.

For more than seven miles, escorted by fellow activists on motorcycles, the Dreadhead Cowboy shutdown the Ryan.

Skymap7 clocked the horse at more than 15 miles per hour before Hollingsworth finally stopped around 95th Street just before 5 p.m.